In the past years machine translation (MT)
systems have got a strong presence on the market. Potential users of MT
systems have a vital interest in information about their performance and
the quality of the translation output.The
tutorial offers an overview of the state of the art of MT, its range of
application, and future perspectives of MT.Starting
with an overview of prototypical architectures of MT systems, their realizations
in existing systems will be examined.Considering
the specific task an MT system is intended for, different methods of evaluating
the output quality of MT systems will be discussed.The
tutorial will conclude with a look at the user interfaces of several commercially
available MT systems and the possibilities of integrating new technologies
like translation memories in the machine translation process.

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